April 2016
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I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here: Climate Change Zone
Last year I signed up to take part in I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here! (IAS), a free online science communication competition that pits scientists against each other in themed zones. School classes ask questions to the five chosen scientists...
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Durham Rietveld Refinement & Powder Diffraction School 2016
This post was contributed by Oli Weber This week I left the relatively safe confines of Bath behind to traverse the country diagonally up to Durham, a well-travelled route since Medieval times, when pilgrims would visit the shrine of St. Cuthbert...
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Science by the Sea: APS Meeting 2016 and Visiting Duke University
The following blog is written by Suzy Wallace. This year the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting was held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA from the 14th to 18th of March. I was fortunate enough to attend a tutorial day before the conference and...
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Hidden Force Looking Machine
Second year CSCT student, Andrew Hall is currently working towards his PhD looking at “Biogenic Alcohols and Sugars as Sustainable Reductants: A Combined Spectroscopic and Theoretical Approach to the Development of New Homogeneous Catalysts for Dehydrogenation, Hydrogen Transfer and Reverse...